By vanessaho@seattlepi.com (Vanessa Ho) Photo by Vanessa Ho How do you know when the whole organic, seasonal, local, grass-fed, hand-picked, home-canned eating thing has gone to a place where parodies live? When you start doing it for your dogs and cats. Animal love is a beautiful thing, but The New York Times chonicles a movement […]
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By meganhoye@seattlepi.com (meganhoye) Talk about losing your head during a match. Polish tennis player Agnieszka Radwanska tried a return to opponent Kimiko Date-Krumm at the Australian Open on Tuesday only to have her racquet split at the neck. The head hurled across the court, and she remained with the grip in hand, a priceless (and […]
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By dwight.silverman@chron.com (Dwight Silverman) In what may be the ultimate expression of conspicuous consumption, Starbucks says you can now pay for the company’s products with selected handheld devices. That’s right. Your overpriced cell phone, connected to the Internet thanks to an overpriced data plan, will be able to reimburse Starbucks for its overpriced coffee. A […]
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By moffitt@sfgate.com (mikemoffitt) It’s been 10,000 years since the Earth last saw its hairiest beast, the woolly mammoth. Comeback for Ice Age critter? But if a team of Japanese, Russian and American scientists are successful, one could soon be lumbering around, shedding all over the place. The researchers, led by Prof. Akira Iritani, professor emeritus […]
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By kgustafson@timesunion.com (Kristi Gustafson) For many of us, “Live! With Regis and Kelly” is a mainstay in morning television. Even if you are already slaving away by 9 a.m., you’ve likely heard of the talk show due — or watched them when you were playing hooky out sick. I remember watching the show on snow […]
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By vk@sfgate.com (Vlae Kershner) House Speaker John Boehner — has he been looking through a thesaurus? (Getty Images) From the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act to last year’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the titles of congressional bills are as much advertising as description. Now the Republicans have H.R. 2, entitled the Repealing […]
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By vk@sfgate.com (Vlae Kershner) Boise State’s blue football field, move over. You’re no longer the strangest playing surface in college sports. The University of Oregon unveiled its new “looking up through the fir trees” basketball court Thursday night to widespead head-scratching and complaints from TV viewers about glare from the light-colored “sky” section. Not surprisingly, […]
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By dwight.silverman@chron.com (Dwight Silverman) There’s no subway in our city, and this video from New York is enough to make me grateful for that. A rat is seen scurrying across the floor of a rolling subway car, exploring. At one point, he scampers up the leg of a sleeping man, who awakens to find the […]
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By Chris.Preovolos@scni.com (Chris Preovolos) ABOVE: A now mullet-less A.C. Slater, aka Mario Lopez. Chicagoland police were summoned to a sports bar named “Mullets” after a presumably intoxicated patron destroyed a framed photograph of A.C. Slater from Saved By The Bell. The mullet was just too much. Slater, the Army Brat and school jock at Bayside, […]
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By moffitt@sfgate.com (mikemoffitt) With at least nine unexplained incidents of mass animal deaths occurring worldwide this year, birds dropping out of the sky have become almost a daily phenomenon. Arkansas' red-wing blackbird deaths remain unexplained The Bay Area, however, has been mercifully free of strange bird kills. Or at least it had until Saturday. The […]
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